Admire its architecture simply by wandering the streets, before taking a trip out to examine the 19th-century frescoes at the nearby Kataluwa Purvarama Mahavihara Buddhist temple, nestled in dense forest and originally built in the 13th Century.

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The body of Obede Loyla Souza was found in dense forest close to his home in the northern state of Para.

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When Adams arrived in town, the school site was a dense forest of sweet gum and pine trees.

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Its location gave them refuge from the northern sea storms and access to the ship building materials found in Ireland's dense forest.

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The dense forest cover teems with birds and butterflies, and natural swimming holes in the rivers are not hard to find.

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